I also took a bit more time to talk about what REST is, and how that equates to something like a database.

One of the things I REALLY appreciated as a speaker was a full hour to present the topic. I need every minute of that for a talk like this. I’d like to see smaller conferences aim for hour long talks again. It seems we’re on the slippery slope to 45 minutes, and I feel rushed at that time period.

This talk focuses quite a bit on a feature we offer – the ability to auto publish a REST API for your tables and views. I won’t say it’s controversial, but I will say it’s probably more practical to write custom RESTful Services in the ‘real world.’ But if I’m introducing the concept of REST enabling a database, then this AUTO feature works very nicely to get folks into the game. Thanks again Ric for reminding me that I need to make this point more succinctly.

I need to rethink this talk so that’s more obvious, or I need a 90 minute talk vs the 60!

I ended the conference with another packed room, and I talked about SQL Developer in all of it’s incarnations.

I secretly turned this into a tips & tricks talk, muwahahahaha.

I got one of my least favorite questions in this talk – ‘why is your tool better than ________?’

That’s not my question to answer – I think it’s yours to answer. Some folks want a checklist of things we do that ‘they’ don’t. That’s a really weird game to play, but I get it.

My ultimate answer lies in about 500 or so blog posts here, and I guess you could really say I voted with my feet about 6 years ago when I came over to Oracle took this job.

I don’t normally do conference or travel wrap-up posts, but I always enjoy reading Tim’s, so I figured, why not?

Happy weekend everybody. It’s time to go to the neighbors for a cook-out.